does anybody know if there are any plans for a new level of lssa.
With 600 days being the ceiling at the mo surly with all the deployments we are now tied up in,there is room for another level if not two added.
maybe at 800,then 1000 days.
any thought??.

It took a great deal of effort to implement LSSA and it's associated benefits through the system - the old SEPAL system was completely unfair - so consider that before railing against LSSA!

Don't forget that LSSA(AT) (280 days in 2 year period) and (AT+) (365 days in a common AT 2 year period) are still payable in addition to LSSA.

Given that a great deal of the Army is deployed on ops - with certain Units on 4 month tour intervals, those LSSA cards are filling rapidly - and lots of our people are accruing quite a tidy sum as it is!

well sloping when was the last time you left the office and went on an op tour.

try telling your wife that its quite a tidy sum when you spend over two years away in the last four.don't get me wrong i didn't join up to sit at home but i think you need to rethink your point of view if you think lssa and these so called" bonuses " more than make up for the time away.

now these" bonuses ".in my first 2 year period i received both my bonuses for doing in excess of 365 days away(no problems). this 2 year period however i'm about 10 days short of my second bonus and obviously don't receive it.how can this be a fair system when i'v done over 750 days away out of a total 1350.
then there is the subject of taxing these bonuses.when the americans go to a war zone they don't pay any tax on there earning let alone bonuses.it's about time the government followed suit.

well sloping when was the last time you left the office and went on an op tour. Just back from my second tour of Iraq
try telling your wife that its quite a tidy sum when you spend over two years away in the last four.don't get me wrong i didn't join up to sit at home but i think you need to rethink your point of view if you think lssa and these so called" bonuses " more than make up for the time away.

now these" bonuses ".in my first 2 year period i received both my bonuses for doing in excess of 365 days away(no problems). this 2 year period however i'm about 10 days short of my second bonus and obviously don't receive it.how can this be a fair system when i'v done over 750 days away out of a total 1350.
then there is the subject of taxing these bonuses.when the americans go to a war zone they don't pay any tax on there earning let alone bonuses.it's about time the government followed suit.

we come in peace,shoot to kill,shoot to kill,shoot to kill.

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To answer your concerns/whinge:

I joined the Army in 1991.

I have completed 10 op tours in that time, as those people who know me will testify, and god knows how many BATUS/OTX/various other bits and pieces.

I have every sympathy for those people whose private lives have been disrupted by constant deployment, but the solution is quite simple - leave if you don't like it.

sloping the " get out if you don't like it" line is an awesome response.one that does not surprise me from a person who is stuck in the era he joined up in.stop towing the party line and get an original idea for yourself.

Shrubbers, right on. JPA will change LSSA to a multi-tiered system that will accommodate those abundant in LSSA days - and offer increases above 600 days. The name will change, as will the rules - they'll both become simpler (to accommodate the RAF and RN!)

Anyway, it's still a bloody good allowance and Her Majesty didn't have to pay it - and as for the argument about the Yanks earlier, remember your pride people, have you ever worked with the Yanks?!